River of news style interface to YC News, combining stories and comments. Context for any comment is just a click away.
http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/
The page will remember what you've seen before, so if you hit reload you'll see an orange line separating new stuff from what's already been displayed.
I've been using it to read news.yc for a few days, and just added filtering. To maintain whitelists and blacklists of usernames, add parameters to the url.
Conversations where pg is involved:
http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?pg
Blacklists after '-'. Conversations without me:
http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?-akkartik
You can combine the two:
http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?nostrademons-akkartik
Want only the chatter around Ask-YC style stories where no URL was submitted?
http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?ask
Or you think they are teh suck?
http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?-ask
You get the idea. You can also put URLs in the blacklist to filter out boring conversations. To prune out yday's flamewar on drugs:
http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?-http://news.ycombinator.co...
Comments welcome: hystry@gmail.com
http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?-arc